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Within the Euro-American literary tradition, Gothic stories of childhood and adolescence have often served as a tool for cultural propaganda, advancing colonialist, white supremacist and patriarchal ideologies. This book turns our attention to modern and contemporary Gothic texts by hemispheric American writers who have refigured uncanny youth in ways that invert these cultural scripts. In the hands of authors ranging from Octavio Paz and Maryse Conde to N. Scott Momaday and Carmen Maria Machado, Gothic conventions become a means of critiquing pathological structures of power in the space of the Americas. As fictional children and adolescents confront persisting colonial and neo-imperialist architectures, grapple with the everyday ramifications of white supremacist thinking, navigate rigged systems of socioeconomic power, and attempt to frustrate patterns of gendered, anti-queer violence, the uncanny and the nightmarish in their lives force readers to reckon affectively as well as intellectually with these intersecting forms of injustice.
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1 - Haunted Perennial Girlhoods
Chapter 2 - Cursed Pregnancies and Uncanny Children
Chapter 3 - Gothic Boyhoods and Adult Betrayals
Chapter 4 - The Teen Girls Aren't Alright
Chapter 5 - Writing Gothic Scenes for Kids
Conclusion - Resistance, Resilience, and the Gothic Happy Ending
